What year was it that the Hobby Show was on the billboard and I can check with my Aunt Marie Tracy. She would most likely know.
They had both movies and vaudville in the old days and during the depression they gave away depression glass to movie attendees for coming to the theater.
If the theater was boarded up,the signs may have been up for some other event nearby. Because after the closure I use to see posters etc.
I have a brass sprinkler head from inside the theater and an old exit sign.
I use to attend the United Artist, the West Coast, the State, the Towne, the Rivoli etc. I grew up in Belmont Shore and wish they had never removed the Theater. Now a health club, just not the same.
I will check to see if any pictures exist. My Aunt Eugenia Miller died recently and they did an article in the Press Telegram about her and the family and theater. The picture of the Theater was the same as in this posting. However I have a picture somewhere of the Theater just before they tore it down.
The design of the Theater was Art Deco. It had a huge sitting room upstairs where my grandmother Kate Tracy would look after her six children. Eugenia, Madeline, Joseph, Catherine, Marie and Ann.
all Saint Anthony’s grads. Eugene Tracy had a brother Art Tracy who use to be the projectionist at the West Coast Theater. The Tracy had a gorgeous balcony.
Frank Ellsworth a police officer at the time use to give my grandfather a lift home in the police car late at night. Frank’s son was also a police officer in Long Beach.
Neil Simpson ran the Theater when I was about 3 or 4 years old. He and he was tied up and robbed several times. In the late 40’s and early 50’s my father Johnny Johnston took over both the Tracy Theater to continue to run it and the old Tracy Cafe at the Pico Navy Landing because Eugene Tracy was ill.
Vaudville was also performed at the Tracy. There was definately an orchestra pit. You were right.
I use to go to the Theater as well as a child. That steep hill next to the Theater was so steep that we use to dream that we were falling down it. It looked much bigger as a child.
The old series F.B.I used the Tracy for T.V. Show.
The movie with Jimmy Durante It'sa Mad,Mad, Mad, Mad World had the Tracy Theater in it. The family still live in Long Beach, three of six children are still living. Madeline, Marie and Ann they graduated from Saint Anthonys. When the Theater was torn down it took huge wrecking balls weeks upon weeks to demolish because there was so much steel in it. The owner was Eugene V. Tracy and his wife Catherine “Kate” Tracy. Eugene V. Tracy came from Bisbee Arizona where he ran Eugen also owned and operated the Laughlin Theater on Pine Avenue.
I am a direct decendant of the family that owned and operated the Tracy Theater. I live in Long Beach and I am a Political Consultant. I can direct you to other family members to give you more details on the theater.
My grandfather Eugene V. Tracy also owned the Laughlin on Pine Av.
What year was it that the Hobby Show was on the billboard and I can check with my Aunt Marie Tracy. She would most likely know.
They had both movies and vaudville in the old days and during the depression they gave away depression glass to movie attendees for coming to the theater.
If the theater was boarded up,the signs may have been up for some other event nearby. Because after the closure I use to see posters etc.
I have a brass sprinkler head from inside the theater and an old exit sign.
I use to attend the United Artist, the West Coast, the State, the Towne, the Rivoli etc. I grew up in Belmont Shore and wish they had never removed the Theater. Now a health club, just not the same.
In the archives at the Library – where the micro fish are they have ads from the forties about the Tracy and lots of others.
I will check to see if any pictures exist. My Aunt Eugenia Miller died recently and they did an article in the Press Telegram about her and the family and theater. The picture of the Theater was the same as in this posting. However I have a picture somewhere of the Theater just before they tore it down.
The design of the Theater was Art Deco. It had a huge sitting room upstairs where my grandmother Kate Tracy would look after her six children. Eugenia, Madeline, Joseph, Catherine, Marie and Ann.
all Saint Anthony’s grads. Eugene Tracy had a brother Art Tracy who use to be the projectionist at the West Coast Theater. The Tracy had a gorgeous balcony.
Frank Ellsworth a police officer at the time use to give my grandfather a lift home in the police car late at night. Frank’s son was also a police officer in Long Beach.
Neil Simpson ran the Theater when I was about 3 or 4 years old. He and he was tied up and robbed several times. In the late 40’s and early 50’s my father Johnny Johnston took over both the Tracy Theater to continue to run it and the old Tracy Cafe at the Pico Navy Landing because Eugene Tracy was ill.
Vaudville was also performed at the Tracy. There was definately an orchestra pit. You were right.
I use to go to the Theater as well as a child. That steep hill next to the Theater was so steep that we use to dream that we were falling down it. It looked much bigger as a child.
The old series F.B.I used the Tracy for T.V. Show.
The movie with Jimmy Durante It'sa Mad,Mad, Mad, Mad World had the Tracy Theater in it. The family still live in Long Beach, three of six children are still living. Madeline, Marie and Ann they graduated from Saint Anthonys. When the Theater was torn down it took huge wrecking balls weeks upon weeks to demolish because there was so much steel in it. The owner was Eugene V. Tracy and his wife Catherine “Kate” Tracy. Eugene V. Tracy came from Bisbee Arizona where he ran Eugen also owned and operated the Laughlin Theater on Pine Avenue.
The Tracy was at the corner of Seaside and Collins Way.
I am a direct decendant of the family that owned and operated the Tracy Theater. I live in Long Beach and I am a Political Consultant. I can direct you to other family members to give you more details on the theater.